Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] as [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | This requires him to immerse himself as thoroughly as he can in the life of the community he is trying to understand . |
| 2 | In such emergency situations your dog will be frightened anyway , and you will need to protect yourself as far as possible against being bitten . |
| 3 | They use delinquent criteria in order to distance themselves as far as possible from conventional ones , and hence insulate themselves from a sense of failure . |
| 4 | Danquah 's evidence was somewhat defensive , even apologetic : Nkrumah felt that their intention was to distance themselves as far as possible from his pronouncements and actions . |
| 5 | Fortunately you have a chancre which has appeared soon , and this means that the system has an opportunity to right itself as far as it can , having got rid of some of the trouble . |
| 6 | Apparently , the girl was an attractive woman and she no doubt knew how to present herself as temptingly as possible , They exchanged what Miller describes as ‘ the usual preliminaries ’ about money and walked on together up the by now rapidly dusking street . |
| 7 | In which case , what better , what other remedy than to push yourself as hard as you could towards all extremes to feel alive , but keep the centre inviolate ? |
| 8 | I want to look different , to please myself as far as I 'm able . ’ |
| 9 | And the key therefore to writing scenes of action is to limit yourself as strictly as you can to describing happenings . |
| 10 | I have a fancy to show myself as far as Newport and Cardiff , while they lose themselves in the mountains of Maelienydd and Brecon . ’ |